Cigarettes
Stolen cigarettes being resold by dairies - police
Police are monitoring social media sites and investigating several dairies in a bid to crack down on the sale of stolen cigarettes. Audio
Christchurch dairy workers too scared to work nights
The Woolston Discounter dairy is one of two stores on Ferry Road that has been robbed multiple times this year. Audio
Thieves selling stolen cigarettes back to dairy owners
Police are investigating several dairies suspected of re-selling stolen tobacco, which one Auckland cop says, is the fastest growing crime in the country. Audio
Dairy owners say they'll go broke if they stop selling cigarettes
And while they're open to the idea of installing secure vending machines one big retailer who uses them says they're not the panacea it's being made out to be. Video, Audio
Dairy owners blame cigarette price hikes for robberies
With a retail price of over $20 a packet, there's a growing black market in stolen cigarettes. Footage provided to Checkpoint shows the people stealing them work very fast, and sometimes brutally… Video, Audio
Fine over Zig Zag sign
Is the Zig Zag cigarette rolling paper really a beacon for pot smokers? Audio
Cigarette companies urged to help foot dairies security bill
A dairy owner says cigarette companies should help pay for security to protect shop keepers from assaults. Ash Dardarji has been in the dairy business for 30 years but he now wonders if selling… Audio
Peter Hajek - do e-cigarettes help smokers quit?
A study out recently in the British Medical Journal suggest that the growth in the use of e-cigarettes in England has been associated with a higher rate of successful attempts to quit smoking. Peter… Audio
Are tobacco companies 'gaming the system'?
Tobacco companies in Australia are responding to tough regulations by discounting and promoting the idea of 'healthier' cigarettes according to Associate Professor of Marketing at Swinburn University… Audio
Tobacco plain-packaging given tick by MPs
Legislation requiring tobacco products to have standardised packaging has passed its final hurdle in Parliament.
E-cigarettes: do the benefits outweigh the risks?
New Zealand's about to change the law so people can legally buy e-cigarettes containing nicotine here. This Way Up reviews the current state of our knowledge about the safety of the vaping and the… Audio, Gallery
Minister disappointed at allegations of prison corruption
Allegations that Wiri prison officers are accepting money to smuggle cigarettes to prisoners have been passed on to police. The Corrections Minister Judith Collins spoke to reporters about the… Audio
We're late on plain cigarette packs - Turia
New Zealand should have introduced plain cigarette packaging years ago, says the architect of the law, Dame Tariana Turia. Audio
Ngāpuhi leads iwi in smoking rate drop
Ngāpuhi has recorded the biggest drop in a comparison of smoking rates by iwi - nearly 10 percent between 2006 and 2013.
Teenage deportee denied lawyer
A teenage international student returning to New Zealand last week faced deportation back to China for not declaring 4 cartons of cigarettes. Audio
Are "Big Tobacco" companies marketing cigarettes to teens?
A tobacco giant is trying to use freedom of information laws to obtain data from surveys of Victorian schoolchildren and teenagers revealing their attitudes towards smoking. Todd Harper is the Chief… Audio
Giving up Smoking - How Good are E-cigarettes
Chris Bullen describes a study comparing e-cigarettes with patches and placebos as tools to quit smoking Audio
Giving up Smoking - How Good are E-cigarettes
Chris Bullen describes a study comparing e-cigarettes with patches and placebos as tools to quit smoking
AudioPundit - Life and Times of the Long White Cloud
General Editor of Te Ara, historian Jock Phillips on those defining moments that made New Zealand, New Zealand. The habit of tobacco smoking. Audio
Ideas for 21 March 2010: Smoke Free Aotearoa
Ideas examines the future of smoking. We hear about Bhutan and their longstanding defiance of the tobacco norm; Niue's attempts to become smokefree; the increasingly influential Maori anti-smoking… Audio
